LCC faculty colleagues,

Your LCCEA Bargaining Team met again today with the Administration for our sixth meeting on ground rules. 

We made considerable movement toward the college’s position. After believing we had met almost all the College’s interests through significant compromises, their representatives returned from a nearly 40-minute caucus without an updated counter proposal. They then shared specific concerns about our proposal language that they had never mentioned in detail before. We were able to immediately respond to clarify our language and offered to work together to reach agreement in the room.  The Administration declined, so we created a new proposal in ten minutes time in order to allay their concerns and meet their interests.  However, upon presenting this new proposal, the Administration was unable to make a decision before the end of bargaining and responded that they will get back to us by email tomorrow. 

We feel we have made every possible attempt to collaborate, address all their concerns, and meet their expressed interests. 

We will provide an update after we hear back from the Administration.

Your LCCEA Bargaining Team Leads:

Gerry Meenaghan

Adrienne Mitchell

April Myler

Peggy Oberstaller

Ryan Olds

Russell Shitabata

Kellen Wilson